[GNC] totals for a parent account and all its children

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 5/20/2025 12:21 AM, R Losey wrote:

>   I wrote the original post, and it was NOT my intention to ask developers
> to do any more than they have done already. What I said would be useful is
> some documentation on tips for configuring the reports in a standard way.
Unfortunately, there is usually no "standard way" as such. For example, 
those who do want subtotals are likely divided on the before vs after.
>
> One development change that would be useful would be to have a button or
> buttons for all expense accounts or all income accounts, so that if I added
> an expense account, it would get picked up.

They do have the button, but IT isn't saved (whether pushed or not) 
rather the RESULT of having it pushed or not is saved. The developers 
will understand why I called that a "binding error" and why I consider 
that a bug (of the report saving process). If the "save" were saving the 
selection/exclusion rules (to be applied when the saved report is 
reopened) instead of saving the result of applying those rules, then 
would pick up any changes to the CoA.(+)

Michael D Novack

* -- I am NOT meaning to imply fixing would be easy. Probably both 
"save" AND the "apply" of report options in all reports would have to 
change. Right now we are able to do an "apply" after each change we try, 
and most folks surely like that WYSIWYG behavior. At least where report 
selection/exclusion is involved.